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STLR Link Round-Up – Oct. 31, 2014

Spain’s Parliament announced that it would adopt a new tax on news aggregators. (Yahoo news). The tax has come to be known as the “Google tax.” At least one technology blog, Gizmodo, was quick to decry the new law as “bad for everyone.” (Gizmodo). A similar tax was tried in Germany. Ultimately after being blocked by Google, the news sites asked to be relisted. (TechCruch h/t Gizmodo).

Facebook’s CIO sent a letter to the Drug Enforcement Agency asking that it cease all operations involving the impersonation of persons. (Facebook h/t FindLaw). Mark Wilson has a summary and analysis of this controversy on FindLaw. (FindLaw).